In Belfast and Southhampton there have been celebrations this weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The last few weeks have also seen the Titanic story revisited from every angle. Last week, film maker James Cameron appeared in a National Geography documentary in which he and a team of naval […]
MoreProfessor Sir Paul Terence Callaghan, 64, one of New Zealand’s most honoured scientists, died in Wellington today having fought a stoic fight against the bowel cancer which he was diagnosed with in 2008 Sir Paul, a former New Zealander of the Year (see right), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, winner of […]
MoreIt was a bit much to expect the preliminary decision on who will host the next global “big science” project would remain under wraps. And so the papers in Australia yesterday carried the news that the South African bid for the Square Kilometre Array, a $2.7 billion radio telescope project, is favoured over the Australia-New […]
MoreWith the rise of location-based services like Google Latitude, Foursquare and mapping applications, consumers are now well aware of the fact that their mobile phone is also a sort of homing beacon, that can pinpoint your location as you move around. That has all sorts of privacy implications and Apple felt the full force of […]
MoreSatellite images of New Zealand snapped right now looks rather impressive as parts of the country are layered in snow. UPDATE: Latest satellite images of New Zealand from NOAA are available here and a nice NASA image showing the weather pattern responsible for the snowfall is available here (H/T Sciblogger Chris McDowall and Scilbogs reader […]
MoreHave you ever been to a conference where more than half the attendees are tapping away on smart phones, laptops or tablet computers while the main keynotes and panel discussions are underway? Welcome to the world of social media conferences, where attendees practice what they preach – firing off tweets, microblogs, status updates and audio […]
MoreRussia is this week remembering the golden age of its space exploration programme with the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of the Earth, the first manned space flight, which paved the way for human exploration of space. The Herald on Sunday ran the following useful infographic which breaks down the steps in the historic […]
MoreMy New Zealand Listener technology column this week looks at the (legal) options for Kiwis who want to venture online to download movies and TV shows at their leisure. The options could generously be described as “patchy”. Consider this – for US$8 a month, about the cost of a glass of wine at a bar […]
MoreThe iPad 2 launches in Australia and New Zealand this week (March 25th) and to foreshadow that I’ve written my latest Listener column on the power of the “app” and how our concept of software is changing thanks to this new format which has been hugely successful for Apple and also Google with its Android […]
MoreThe devastation following the 8.9M earthquake in Japan and, closer to home, last month’s lethal quake in Christchurch has many asking what science is actually doing to find a way of forewarning of major earthquakes. Given the loss of life in high magnitude earthquakes and the resulting tsunamis, it is indeed something that ought to […]
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